SUCCESS IN POULTRY CULTURE 
stock usually means the difference be- 
tween success and failure. 
The farmer who has a 
flock of fowls that is not 
making as good an egg 
record as it should, can greatly improve 
it by using male birds that have mothers 
with good egg records. He can usually 
buy such birds, very reasonably, from 
breeders who make a specialty of breed- 
ing such stock. 
The male bird should always be of the 
same breed as the flock. If the farmer 
has a mongrel flock, he can improve them 
in the same way; but it would be better 
to get some well-bred stock of the desired 
breed, and, after a start has been made, 
sell the mongrels to the produce man. 
While a mongrel flock can be made to pay, 
they will not pay as large a profit as well- 
bred stock of some of the standard 
breeds; therefore they are a poor invest- 
ment. And then, too, the mongrel flock 
is so ugly, as compared with a flock of 
standard-bred birds, that they are not 
such a source of pleasure as a standard- 
bred flock would be with all of its mem- 
bers of uniform size and color. 
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The Farmer and 
His Flock 
